Connection for fire hose



March 30 1926.

Y 1,578,957 R. G. COATES CONNECTION FOR FIRE HOSE Filed June 29, 1925 gwuwntoo iTo all whbin it may'wn e-MY i Patented Mar. 30,1926;

-E STATE.

RAY G. GOATES, or PASADENA, CALIFORNIA.

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Be it known that I, RAY G. (learns, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pasadena, .in the county of Los Angeles and State of Californiaphave invented a {new and useful Connection for Fire 'Hose of" which the following is a specification; V

This invention relates to hose connections of the, type suitable for conn'eeting the suction and discharge hose lines of a fire engine to a' hydrant in a manner" that makes it unnecessary to? shut the hydrant valve and disconnect the fire hose while Itisthe common practice' a't present making the connection of thesuction and discharge hose with the hydrant.

for the fire engine, which also 'ear ries the hose, when respondin'g "to fire alarm, to

j rfunft'o a, designated hydrant, drop a nun" the hydrant toward the fire, laying th'e'hosej with th'end of the h0'se, and then runffrbm as it goes; 'lhe' fireman having the end of lthehose lconn'ects it withthe'hydrant and turns on'thewater so as'to'fill the hoseas the engine'laysit, thus insuring that little time is lost in obtaining water under city pressure when the laying of "the hose to the" 'fire has been completed.

It often is necessary that a larger flow of water be utilized infighting the wand, 1n

' such 'event, itiscustomaryto return the engine to the hydrant. Un'derpresentmeth- "'od's, it is often necessary to disconnect'the' "ffire hose from the hydrant and {then "con-' "meet, the pump ofthe'oengine toth'e hydrant 'land ftothefire hose,

Itw'ill-"be seen 'thft fighting the fire and that thlsoccursiat a critical timefsincel in the early stages of the fire everyminute'that water is played on Y fthefireiis of relatively great value. Stoppage of the water while making the change from city pressure-to engine pressure may permitithe fireto getbeyond'controlr' Inan' effort to avoid the necessity for turning off the/water while making the change from engine pressure to city pres-- sure, four-Way valves havebeen designed to o be used on the hydrant end of the hose and j 'such' valves are dropped' with the hose. In

"- these valvesone 'ofthe' portsis' connected with the hydrant and another tothe hose line and-theother twoare" connected with -1 the pump. With these'valves, when the hose v Water turned"onpthefwaterruns from the.

is' first eoiniectedwith theihydrant and the neeting I the: pump i fire hose line. 2

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. Fig, 1 s a perspe'etlve view-of a connec 5 valuable tiine is lost in 'tionrnot be seen but a fragment'of the fire-engine h ydrant'to the hose line. Aiter the suction and "discharge-hose of the pum have been connected" with' t'he four-way jvalve's, the Y valve is shifted seas to direct the-water .0

from the hydrant to the engine'and from the engineto the firehose'a'nd'to shi'itj Toff the passage leading'from' the hydrant toithe fire hose. 7 Such valves -.readilyj becoiiie leaky are liable to become damaged fin han'dling of the hose, are. very diflicult to operate; and,

are very heavy if made large enough "to pass ,the required amount; of; 'waterwitho t 1 1 due frictionall'osses.

An object of this men ionin provide w a hose connection of'this''character and of Afifu'rther object is to provide a ho nectlonof this character having a manually y operated fvalve' and "havin ayvalve; that,

when the, 'manuallyoperated valve"is opened 3 v and the pump} is operated, will aiutomati+ cally operate] to close oil the chainhercon; nected with the pump from-the pas age-0011 discharge hose ;withfthe Theaccornpanying drawingsillustratethe tion for a' fire hose constructed in accordance with the provisions "of this inventiom 'the same bein'g'shown 'in connection with fire ihydrantWandjconnected by "suctionanddisg charge hose toa fire" en ine "which is 1mg: "m entarily,indicated. sfA; ragment ofithe -fire V "hose-is also shown attachedgto'lthe oo nnec Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the hbse; I

'connectionshown in Fig.fl ,-theizehecl i valve.

being shown in one position' imsolid lines "and-being ic'atedin a difierent-position 0 V in bIj'Oken lines; 1 A 4; w I: I Referring, first, more particularly to "Fig, p

1, the hose connection is indicated," in general, at 3, and is shown coupled to a fire hydrant a; 1 Connecting the connection 3 with the 'pumpnta'keh isa suction'hose 0' and conof which it forms apart is fjndkg t-gd; i

"general by thecharacter Oonnectedwith d h a nne ti fi s i m i fi i ssQ:

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Referring, as well, to Fig. 2, the connection 3 comprises a chamber 4 having an inlet I stood in this art.

5 for connection with the hydrant, an outlet 6 for connection with the suction llOSO fl'lld an outlet 7 through which. water may pass from the chamber 1.

The outlet 6 'is controlledgby a manually operated valve 8 adapted to close on a seat 9zand the valve 8 is operated by a valve stem 1O tl1readed through a removable cover 11 of the chamber '41. EIhe'stem has an I. operating handwheel 12. The dischargenipple of the? hydrant isindicated at 13 and is screw threaded .asis. customary and the inwith the nipple 13 by in a manner well undertake is connected a threaded'nipple 14c ,Atthe outer endo-f the discharge opening ,7 is a valve seat 15 upon which is ,adapted to seat an outwardly opening automatic check valve 16. In this particular instance {the check valve v16 is pivoted at one side at -17 to the -chambe'r 4, so as toswing-in an arcuate .path

1 outlet-20, the

within a valve chamber 18 which is. provided withan intake 19 anclan aoppositeto the outlet 20.: In this particular equivalents.

controls-the outlet '7 but it also controls the intake 19, there being a valve seat .22 surrou-ndingthe intake 19 forthe check valve 16 to seat upon when in the position shown in solid linesin Fig; 2.

The outlet '20 is 2SC16W receive :the usual hose coupling 24: for conreceive atheusual hose :coupling 26 for-con- I necti-ng the firehose g with", said. outlet 20.

- -The outlet'fi is screw threaded at "251to *knecting the .suction .hose 0 with the outlet 6.

.The intake 19 is-connected by the usual hose coupling 27 with the pump discharge.

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if; The -hose=connection described above will be used- I as :follows drant a fireman takes one .end 2026 the hose, I ,carmed by the engine, on which end is the v man immediately makes connection between I :When theifire engine .larrives at the hyoonnection :described above, and :said fire the inlet 5 ;and .the hydrant and, assuming 1311513213118 valve .8 is closed, he then opens the 'hydran't valWc, of which the stem :is indi- :cate'd at JL in Fig. 1. T he water thus ad- ,lioldsjthe'valve .16 closed on the :seat22, I as iinsolidlines in. Fig.2, and said water possesthrough theloutleit 2O andfirehose g to the fire. The water is under city pressure pivot 17 being substantially lnstance the wallof'the intake 19 is integral withtheicha-mber 4 and the wall'of the outthreaded at 23 toother outlet of the-chamber.

and the flow is substantially ithe same as would occur with the hose line connected directly with the hydrant.

"li the fire is o'f such character as to reguirea. greater flow of water, the engine, after "layingthe fire hose to the fire, will be returned 'to.,th e hydrant and its intake port I) will be connected by the hose 0 with the outlet 6. Also the pump intaked will he connected by the hose a with the intake 19.

It will be seen that these pump connections are quickly made. A fireman will then open the valve 8 and the pump willthen be started into operation and such operation will make the pressure in the intake 19ihigher than that in the outlet 7 and, consequently, the valve 16 will swing from the position shown in solid lines in Fig. .2 to the broken line position in said ffigure, thus closing .off the .citypressure from the fire hose and. directing the water will then force thewater through the hose e .into the chamber 18 whence it discharges into-the firc hose '9. I

admitted tothe chamber 4 to the engine through the hose 0 and the pump If-the pumping operationistpurposely or acci dent-ally,

directly as it did before thepu-mp was con- .nected, or through the passages of the" pump in event that :the %pump is of such construction %as to. admit this, 0r..both through the outlet :7 and throughthe pump.

When thepump is not operating the pres- :su-res on opposite faces of the valve .8 are substantially equal and said valveyma-Y be closed with little effort. When so closed the engine may be disconnected without inter- 'rupting the :flOWu'Oif water under hydrant pressure. Very small loss of water may occur when the engine-is be'in'g disconnected 1., A connection oft-hecharacter described momprising a, chamber having two outlets v and an inlet, a manually operated-valvefor one of said outlets, apa-ssage forming an intake and an outlet,- and .anaut'omatic valve, .movable to close either the intake or the 1 .2. ilconnectionof the character described comprising a chamber having a removable cover=and hav ng twooutlets and an inlet, a

discontinuedthe water will continue to flow through the .fire ,hose, either.

manually operated valve for one of said out- I lets, there being astem for the valve thread .ed through the cover,a passage forming an Em tted from the, hydrant to :the cha-mber l inlet and an outlet, and an automatic valve comprising a chamber having an inlet adapted to be connected With a hydrant, said chamber having two outlets, a m'anually operated valve for one of the outlets, a passage forming an intake and an outlet, there being a valve seat at the inner endof the intake and a valve seat at the outer end of the other outlet of the chamber, and a valve closing onto one of said seats or the other according as the higher pressure is .on one side or the other of the last mentioned Valve.

4. A connection of the character described comprising a chamber having an inlet adapted to be connected with a hydrant, said chamber having anoutlet adapted to be connected With a pump intake and said chamber having a second outlet, a manually operated valve for the first mentionedoutlet, a

sage forming an intake adapteditobe con-' nected withithe outlet of the pump and said passage forming an outlet adapted to be connected with a'fire hose, valve seats at the I 1111161, end of the second intake andat the outer end of the second outlet, .and a valye"f' automatically closed onto the seat offthef second outlet by a difference in pressures'on opposite? sides thereof when the man'ually' operated valve is'openand the pump is in operationanclclosed'onto the seat of the intake when the manuallyoperated yalyeis closed.

4 Signed at Los Angeles, California, it this- 18 day of June 1925;

I "RAY GL'C A 'E 

